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Thanks--I appreciate you starting this discussion with this approach, and I almost feel guilty about pushing BI incessantly without doing this as due diligence

by scarmig 13y ago

Thanks--I appreciate you starting this discussion with this approach, and I almost feel guilty about pushing BI incessantly without doing this as due diligence before. Most people don't seem to get that models are useful starting places and tools for understanding, not the answer itself. Even when you state that explicitly...

notahacker 13y ago
A corollary of your observation is that the BI is proposed to replace retirement benefits, whereas the BJ as specified in the model provides income for employed people and registered disabled only. Since BJ advocates seldom oppose the principle of state-aid for the retired, you'd probably need to start by solving this (pretty easily by adding "retired_person" and "administrative_cost_per_retired_person" variables) which would substantially reduce the cost gap between the two proposals.